Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

These aren’t just jokes for people who like art — they’re real membership categories at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art in Charleston. Al though I live a thousand miles away, I almost bought a membership just to support their art puns. . Or are you more of a “Sugar Dada”? . Free M embersh ip .

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 12, 2011

project will focus on apps for arts organizations, with a practical. We'll share some interesting apps developed for arts. Discovering Public Art with Public Art Omaha. engage with public art? engage with public art? The really cool thing is how Public Art Omaha did it: their public art.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2012

I believe that new models of aging and senior life will emerge from this wave, and can't wait to see what is created, which is why I loved stumbling upon The New York Times article, For Healthy Aging, A Late Act in the Footlights. The NOHO Senior Arts Colony and the Long Beach Senior Arts Colony will open in 2012.

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Arts Long Beach New York Artist 53

Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls." ~ Pablo Picasso Do you think you get more done if you focus, nose-to-the-grindstone, or if you take lots of breaks? According to a recent New York Times article, Relax! September 6, 2013 is ARTBreak Day , a project of Art is Moving.

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Hosting Community Artist New York 73

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

I'm prepping for a workshop on Social Media and wanted do a round up of recent compelling examples of arts organizations using social media strategies and tools. I've covered arts organizations and social media here and there over the past three years and last winter co-wrote a cover story article with Rebecca Krause-Hardie for ArtsReach.

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JUNE 1, 2023

The Stonewall riots didn’t mark the start of the gay rights movement, but during a time when it was dangerous to be out and proud, they were a galvanizing call to action for the LGBTQIA+ community to fight for their right to openly be themselves. A year after the riots, the first pride parades took place in several U.S.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Many of us feel time-crunched. Now sometimes, "I don''t have enough time," can really mean, "I''m exhausted and need more sleep," or "I''m afraid," or "I don''t want to fail," or "I don''t want to have to make a decision and focus on one project." But when time is truly the issue, we have two choices: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

In 1992, I discovered the Internet, Well, and was hired by the New York Foundation of the Arts to be the Network Weaver for a network for artists, Arts Wire. In 1992, I discovered the Internet, Well, and was hired by the New York Foundation of the Arts to be the Network Weaver for a network for artists, Arts Wire.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2016

It has intruded on our attention and wellbeing – and helped blurred the lines between work and leisure time. I was an early adopter of using the Internet in 1992 where I had a virtual job working online for a program of the New York Foundation for the Arts called ArtsWire. Artist Tiles. It is unplanned.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

There will be times this year when a thank you email or tweet just isn’t enough to communicate your appreciation. Handwriting is quickly becoming a lost art form. My mind wanders after a couple of paragraphs even when reading New York Times Bestsellers. Think of that when you are writing the notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Last June, I facilitated a leadership workshop at the Americans for the Arts Conference where I tested some of the assessments and checklist tools in our book. Erika’s organization is a small to midsize arts organization, with six full time staff members and an operating budget of less than $1 million.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

The speakers for this panel include: Tracy Fullerton – Electronics Arts Game Innovation Lab. Elaine Cohen: The New York Public Library. 100 Years of the flagship library in New York. Babycastles is New York’s first independent video arcade. Elaine Charnov – The NY Public Library.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

I've been involved with teaching and learning technology for nonprofits since 1993 when I worked for the New York Foundation for the Arts' online network for artists, Arts Wire. I also think about what I'm not going to cover due to time constraints and communicate that upfront.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2006

In two weeks, several hundred arts leaders from around the country will gather on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University to discuss the role of technology in the arts field at the Technology in the Arts Conference. Tell me a little bit about how you got into arts management? Was that your progression? Actually, I???m

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Tech Soup

JUNE 6, 2011

As more nonprofits are looking towards technology to create effective social change, I wanted to take this time to present some exciting events taking place at this year's festival from June 20 - 22 in New York City.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2013

Two weeks ago, Roberto Bedoya asked several arts bloggers, including me, to write a post reflecting on Whiteness and its implications for the arts. I am in no way an expert in issues related to racial and ethnic representation in the arts. They present masterpieces by white male artists and innovations by white male scientists.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2007

I don't usually fist-pump while reading the New York Times. But I’d been scribbling notes for an art museum label post for awhile, and then yesterday, the NY Times had a review of a new show at MOMA, Comic Abstraction. Art becomes a kind of one-liner. And I don’t blame the art. Is this enough?

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2007

Just over a year ago, musician, Olivia Greer , was commissioned by Culture Project , a New York City theater company, to write a song for the Women Center Stage Festival. Working with Women Center Stage has helped Greer to connect her interests in art and social justice activism as well. Performances will include the play, "St.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

The recent series of events, from Ferguson to Cleveland and New York, have created a watershed moment. New laws and policies will help, but any movement toward greater cultural and racial understanding and communication must be supported by our country’s cultural and educational infrastructure. It is not enough on its own.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 16, 2012

You can connect with her at feedmedarling.com and on Twitter @megworden. ** During a nutrition summit last year in New York, I was listening to Deepak Chopra speak (which was awesome), and he was talking about different kinds of happiness. Also, I am a writer, storyteller, and part time editor of other people’s novels.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

4 Steps for Selling Your Art: Interview with Alyson B. Change.org is hiring bloggers. Blog Action Day is October 15th. This year's theme is climate change.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2010

Since moving to Santa Fe, he has developed New Mexico Creates , an economic development initiative that creates market links for New Mexico artists and artisans. He is also the co-founder of the International Folk Art Market. There were many artists painting part-time in this genre, but none of them really had a market.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

Our curator writes labels about licking the art. We dance out our bad times. Eric talked about how the New York Hall of Science is trying to fund risk-taking, not just talk about it or under-resource it. Merilee Mostov and the Columbus Museum of Art. Participatory art and co-creation on the rise.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

The speakers for this panel include: Tracy Fullerton - Electronics Arts Game Innovation Lab Ruth Cohen - American Museum of natural History Elaine Charnov - The NY Public Library Jason Eppink - Museum of the Moving Image Syed Salahuddin - Babycastles Elaine Cohen: The New York Public Library 100 Years of the flagship library in New York.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

There was something very engaging and even artsy about this community of geeks volunteering their time, hanging out together, and shoulder-to-shoulder learning. The space reminded of the many artist-run spaces and community centers I've visited when I worked with the New York Foundation of the Arts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

They’re jocks, geeks, artists, musicians and cheerleaders…and we need their help. ANN CURRY | Today Show News Anchor | @AnnCurry. Here’s what’s pissing me off: The reason I have to fight every time to do these stories [like Darfur] is because the truth is that it’s hard to get the majority of Americans…to care. ” (not in video).

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2019

Lumin at Detroit Institute of Art Now on to the interactives…I’ve been thinking a great deal about the function of interactives in museums. People go to school regularly over a period of time (and to museums intermittently, occasionally, sporadically, or rarely). Those feelings developed over hours of classroom time with a human.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2015

Cary Creative Center in North Carolina is an upcycling nonprofit that provides used artistic materials to people. As a reuse organization, its motto is "make art, not waste." Cary Creative Center has an art materials reuse store where people in the community can buy pretty much anything an arts teacher might want.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2010

This week, I met New York choreographer Dean Moss and learned about his fascinating contemporary dance piece Kisaeng Becomes You (2009). As New York Times critic Claudio La Rocco put it , "[they] decided to roll the dice every night and gamble the entire show on several dazzling, sophisticated bursts of audience participation.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 7, 2008

I met one of these data artists last year while visiting a friend/journalist at the New York Times. His name is Mark Hansen, a UCLA statistician, and he was working on the finishing touches of the installation of Moveable Type in the lobby of the new Times building (shown above).

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 9, 2009

I once asked Eric Siegel, the Director of the New York Hall of Science, why museums are rarely innovative shining stars on the cutting edge of culture. Maybe it's time to change that. Maybe it's time to change that. This is the model that governs most businesses and artistic endeavors. They're made to plod along.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

David is a journalist turned entrepreneur who has written for Wired , Seed , Columbia Journalism Review and The New York Times. We're taking the art of freelancing for writers, and making it much more transparent and much more public. We started our conversation by David explaining what Spot.us

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 26, 2005

Last night we watched Mad Hot Ballroom , one of the best movies I've seen in a long time. Its all about a ballroom dancing program in the New York City public schools and it makes a terrific case for the importance of arts education. youth Young Caucasus Women arts education young bloggers

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

This week, an interview with Brooklyn Museum 1stfans managers Will Cary (membership) and Shelley Bernstein (technology) and artist An Xiao. So you weren't targeting "Brooklyn artists" or some other demographic group. T he Twitter Art Feed features a new artist every month. This was made for them. Will: Right.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

I've written before about the inspiring work that the Brooklyn Museum of Art is doing with their community-focused efforts. Click is an exhibition process in three parts: The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations.

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

For the first time, this year's Games for Change Festival created an opportunity for producers of games in development to get live feedback from leading game designers, educators, and funders on the main stage. Frontiers may have better success if it were made specifically for those in migration policy work or the arts community.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Sheroes in the Arts. American Edmonia "Wildfire" Lewis is considered the first woman of Native American and African descent to achieve international fame as a sculptor at a time when artists of color were hardly celebrated and slavery was still legal. Are you inspired by women in the arts? Thought Leaders. Game-Changers.

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